About Joseph
Joseph Mbaeru is a counsellor with six years' experience who chose this path out of a long-standing interest in how people cope and recover. He holds a background in integrative counselling and psychotherapy and uses that training to help people understand their feelings and respond differently to stress and anxiety.
He communicates plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. He commonly supports adults facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, trauma and issues with self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also works with people dealing with addictions, career worries, eating and sleeping concerns, and the strain that comes with life changes. His approach is collaborative and tailored to the person in front of him. Joseph blends cognitive-behavioural strategies with acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking and client-centred techniques.
He draws on dialectical behaviour ideas when emotional regulation is needed. Sessions aim to be practical - learning new skills, trying different responses, and making steady progress between meetings. He offers therapy in English, Igbo and Yoruba and accepts international clients.
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Fees vary with location and therapy subscription terms apply and can be cancelled at any time. Joseph keeps developing his practice through ongoing professional learning and supervision.
He emphasises empathy, clear communication and helping people build resilience so they can manage challenges more confidently.
How Joseph's approaches work online
Joseph uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to help people notice painful feelings without getting overwhelmed and to focus on values-based actions that matter to them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build more supported, predictable ways of relating to others.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Joseph works collaboratively to choose and adapt methods that match a person's goals, preferences and the problems they bring. He checks in regularly and adjusts plans if something is not helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is preferred, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports paced reflection between meetings. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep a consistent therapy rhythm across time zones and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Igbo, Yoruba
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